Posts tagged Digg
Digg Adds Editors to Break News Faster
Nov 11th
One of the issues Digg has always struggled with is that it can take quite a while before a breaking news story hits the front page. Waiting for enough users to vote a story up can sometimes take a few hours and in this age of real-time breaking news, Digg’s lag doesn’t make it an attractive destination for news junkies. Now, Digg is trying to change this by adding an editorial layer to some parts of the site. Starting today, Digg will add a breaking news/interesting stories module that will be managed by Digg’s community team. This team will aggregate stories that they think should be on the Digg front page but haven’t garnered enough votes by the community yet.
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These curated modules will appear on the top right side of the Top News, My News and Upcoming pages.
As far as we can see, these editors decisions won’t directly affect the content that makes it to the front page, but their recommendations will surely influence the stories that the Digg community will vote for. After all, these modules are in a very prominent position on the most popular pages on Digg.
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Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle
Sep 3rd
Since the release of the newest version of Digg, v4, launched last week, the less-than-warm reception has caused a massive influx of traffic to their rival – Redditt. Launched less than a year after Digg, Redditt hasn’t been as popular, but they did have very loyal users. However, starting Sunday night, the four-person team has seen the amount of new users, uniques, and page views increase in staggering numbers.
Senior programmer, Chris Slowe, states that the unique page views alone have increased 50% – they have been averaging about 900,000 a day since Monday morning. Also, they are reporting between 13 and 14 million total page views per day. Approximately 25% of the sites visitors were people who went on to register for the site and become “baby redditors” as Chris calls them on the site’s blog.
With their numbers growing so rapidly, the folks over at Reddit were honestly surprised that the site didn’t go down. Their blog also says that most days they are performing around peak capacity for the site and they “never could have survived an unexpected surge like that.”
Evelyn Rusli of Tech Crunch talked with Slowe and he says that they are currently working on new features to keep the “Redditors” happy and to make sure the site can sustain it’s new, larger user base, including redesign of the UI.
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Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle
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Digg 4 is Released, But Are Users “Burying” This New Version?
Aug 27th
Digg, the user-powered social news website, has released its new version – Digg 4. If you are not familiar with exactly what Digg is, here’s the long and short of it. Created in 2004 Digg allows users to post links to stories they find interesting to share with other members of the site. Whenever other users view these links they have the option to vote on whether they like it or not – choosing between “digging” or “burying” the story.
With version 4 all major social network are integrated into the site allowing users to find new people to follow on Digg by searching through their contacts on sites like Twitter, Google and Facebook. Another new feature is what they call My News. With this feature, users can personalize the news stories they want to see on their homepage by displaying the most recent news based on what’s buzzing in their social circle. Of course, this won’t be for everyone and those that don’t wish to use My News can stick with the traditional homepage that shows stories from around the world.
All these features should have Digg fans high-fiving around the world, however there were a few glitches that had some users wishing to “bury” version 4. With the influx of new traffic it is causing the site to run slower than usual which is one of the main problems Diggers are having with the upgraded site. Even though a lot of users do belong to one or more social networks, not everyone does – believe it or not – and some of Digg’s most die-hard fans have stopped using the site all together because of this integration.
As with most new upgrades, Digg 4 is just getting its footing and is actively working on any problems so that their vision of a new, more social interface will come to fruition completely; and hopefully with minimal user loss and maximum new user gain.
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Digg 4 is Released, But Are Users “Burying” This New Version?
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New Digg (v4) Goes Live
Aug 25th
After a couple months of beta testing with invited Digg members, the new version of Digg — they’re calling it “v4″ for Version 4 — is now live and open to all. Digg founder Kevin Rose announced it here, but that blog post is down as I write this.
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How I Drove Over 1.3 Million Pageviews through Digg for $90K in Ad Revenue
Jun 30th
This case study covers social media strategy I executed last fall where I drove over 1.3 million pageviews to a microsite in less than four days for about $90K in ad revenue.
The bulk of that traffic was driven on the first day of promotion. The url was submitted to Digg.com. The url was also sent to bloggers who posted similar content on their web sites. In this video I recount my journey from when I just started to optimize websites for more search engine exposure about 7 years ago to one of the highest revenue generating projects I executed in less than a week.
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How I Drove Over 1.3 Million Pageviews through Digg for $90K in Ad Revenue
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